Opinion-Columns
Ola Osinaike | Racism, suck it up
What is our duty when someone insults our race? Do we have an obligation to society and fellow citizens to go on a tirade?
Ryan Daniels | The importance of being arrogant
Accomplishments require strategically straddling a line between deliberate self-unawareness and critical self-awareness.
Arjun Gupta | The bad has broken
“Breaking Bad” drew the golden line between inconceivable action scenes and soft human emotions.
Caroline Brand | Ask Caroline
I’ve heard about the same personal struggles and issues from many people — some of which I’ve experienced too. Given the pervasiveness of these topics, I’ve decided to address a few.
Rachel del Valle | The Rory Gilmore complex
We spend a lot of time with the figments of writers’ imaginations, sometimes forgetting that that’s what they are.
Jeff Nadel | Armed and studious
If a state allows for concealed carry, then there is no defensible reason for universities to enforce a zone of defenselessness.
Xavier Flory | The educated citizen
Newspapers like to say that journalism is the first rough draft of history, but even for a rough draft, it’s often pretty bad.
Kurt Mitman | Trolls R Us
The DP should be more active in curating the comments section. When the author is directly attacked, or if the commenter goes off on some tangent unrelated to the topic of the article, the comment should be removed.
Robert Hsu | Academic masochism
Should we really be proud when we sleep less, or take pride in taking six classes just because it sounds like a lot?Arielle Pardes | Pandora’s box, delivered to your doorstep
There’s a subscription service for everything. But will the subscription commerce model work for sex?
Sindhuri Nandhakumar | Joker or jackass?
When I respond, saying that I am Tamil, many people have asked me, mostly jokingly, if I am a Tamil Tiger.
Ryan Daniels | Gunning for change
Last week’s response to the Navy Yard shootings was different because the country’s sentiment concerning gun violence has changed. Our anger confirmed that, in 2013, we have found ourselves in a post-NRA America.
Ali Kokot & Hayley Brooks | Regal racism
Though the Miss America Pageant is problematic in it’s narrow, superficial method of validating women on a national stage, we are pleased to see the pageant pay homage to the melting pot that America prides itself on being.
Clarissa O'Conor | The myth of neutrality
It is a fallacy to think that you can be apolitical in an intensely political context and an intensely political world.
Kurt Mitman | Researcher or hack?
When your research begins to step into the fray of politics, your motives immediately start to come into question.
Rachel del Valle | Call me crazy
One of the rules I used to have for myself was that I’d never see a therapist. I thought that therapy was self-indulgent, excessive, the stuff of Woody Allen movies and not something you do in real life. But that changed two weeks ago.
JY Lee | Can entrepreneurship save the world?
While I celebrate our entrepreneurial energy as vibrant evidence that the American Dream is alive, profit-driven startups should be balanced by social enterprises guided by the public good.
Morgan Jones | Let’s get naked
When I came to Penn, I brought that superhero mindset with me. If anyone asked me how I was doing, I’d answer, “Good!” It’s easy to give that automatic response and move on — I mean, is Superman ever not good?Arielle Pardes | Playing Playboy
Unlike many of our peer institutions, Penn has made it a priority to promote conversations about consent.